Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson
Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Marriages are made in Heaven.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The greater man the greater courtesy.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The mighty hopes that make us men.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson